- Lonnie VanZandt (@lonniev) on X
Secure Courier is a consent flow in Tollbooth DPYC, a monetization network for paid MCP services, that lets an AI agent act for a Nostr npub without holding the user's nsec. The service sends a signed, sealed direct message over Nostr relays, the user replies with a signed approval and an expiry, and the service issues its own encrypted grant. Lonnie VanZandt presents it as an alternative to central identity providers and CIBA. The thread gives no audit results.
x.comthreadAdded 1 Nov 2026π§ AI - Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on X
Campfire is a free, open-source, self-hosted tool that runs Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Aider and OpenHands side by side in one browser tab. Each agent gets its own git worktree, with permission voting (30 second timer, majority rules), session replay, cross-backend agent races and a shared semantic memory layer. Installs with bunx the-campfire. The post also compares Clawboo, Conductor, Vibe Kanban and Crystl.
x.comthreadAdded 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026π§ AI
Pre-ERC: Agent Pre-Sign Risk ReportPre-ERC: Agent Pre-Sign Risk Report is a draft Ethereum Magicians proposal for an EIP-712-signed report that a risk source, identified by an ERC-8004 identity, returns about one unsigned request. It carries typed findings on tokens, approvals, addresses, payments (x402) and texts, and each finding is marked read or not read. It has no score or verdict, so the consumer applies its own policy. The author's live implementation, toll, runs on Robinhood Chain.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 31 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- ERC-8481: Agent Pre-Sign Risk Report
ERC-8481 is a draft Ethereum standard for the report a risk source returns about one unsigned transaction, EIP-712 request or x402 requirement. The report is bound to the request by a digest and EIP-712 signed by an ERC-8004 identity. It has five typed finding groups (tokens, approvals, addresses, payments, texts), each marked read or not read, and carries no score or verdict. The author's service toll is the only implementation; three design questions are open.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadAdded 2 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Pre-ERC: Agent Pre-Sign Risk ReportPre-ERC: Agent Pre-Sign Risk Report is an Ethereum Magicians draft for a signed, typed report that a risk source returns about one unsigned agent transaction. The report is bound to the request by a digest and signed with EIP-712 by an ERC-8004 identity. Findings cover tokens, approvals, addresses, x402 payments and texts, each marked read or not read, with no score or verdict. The toll service runs it live on Robinhood Chain.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 31 Oct 2026π§ AI- Dark Web Intelligence (@DailyDarkWeb) on X
CVE-2026-102764 is an unauthenticated RCE in BeyondTrust Remote Support, already exploited and in CISA KEV. Rapid7 published an analysis and opened a Metasploit pull request on 30 October 2026, showing code execution on version 24.1.2 via a forged "local" message origin, the native file-transfer service and a PHP file written to the web root. BT26-05 (CVSS 4.0 9.3) is fixed by patch BT26-05-RS; SaaS was patched by 9 October.
x.comthreadAdded 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - π¨ AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) on X
RoboAPI is a public API from PokeBot, powered by its world-action model Poke-Aurora, that lets robot arms do new tasks from natural-language instructions with no task-specific data collection or training. A user connects a supported arm with a wrist-mounted camera, gives a task such as "clean the table", and receives the next moves in near real time. The post gives no benchmarks, supported hardware list or pricing.
x.comthreadAdded 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026π§ AI - Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X
Hyperflow H3 is Video Rebirth's 8-step LoRA for MiniMax H3, released in September 2026 with open weights. Artificial Analysis ranks it #5 on AA-Video-I2V v2.1 and #3 on AA-Video-Editing v1.1, ahead of MiniMax H3 (768p). It costs $9.00 per minute for Image to Video and $18.00 for Video Editing at 1088p, under half of Dreamina Seedance 2.5 ($34.12 and $40.82). The thread gives per-capability and per-use-case breakdowns.
x.comthreadAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026π§ AI
Pre-ERC: x402 Payee Verification for ERC-8004 AgentsPre-ERC draft on Ethereum Magicians that binds the x402 payTo address to an ERC-8004 agent's registered agentWallet, directly or through an EIP-712 payee delegation (ERC-1271 for contract wallets). It lists eight fixed checker outcomes and requires the resource origin to appear in the registration file. On Robinhood Chain (28 October 2026), 5,575 of 20,046 agents answered with x402 requirements, and only 5 used their agentWallet as payTo.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
ERC-8478: x402 Payee Verification for ERC-8004 AgentsERC-8478 is a draft Ethereum standard that binds the payTo address in an x402 payment requirement to the seller's ERC-8004 agent identity. A payer compares payTo with the registered agentWallet, or accepts an EIP-712 payee delegation signed by it, and checks that the origin is listed in the registration file. On Robinhood Chain, 5 of 5,575 x402-responding agents had payTo equal to agentWallet (28 October 2026).
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π§ AI
ERC-8478: x402 Payee Verification for ERC-8004 AgentsERC-8478 is a draft Ethereum standard that binds the x402 payTo address to an ERC-8004 agent's identity, to stop payee redirection by a hijacked domain, proxy or injected tool result. A payTo must equal the agentWallet or carry an EIP-712 delegation signed by it, and the origin must be listed in the registration file. On Robinhood Chain, 5 of 5,575 x402-responding agents used their agentWallet as payTo (28 October 2026).
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Pre-ERC: x402 Payee Verification for ERC-8004 AgentsPre-ERC draft on the Ethereum Magicians forum that ties the payTo address in an x402 payment requirement to the seller's ERC-8004 agent identity. The payTo must equal the registered agentWallet or an EIP-712 delegation signed by it, and the origin must be listed in the registration file. A checker returns one of eight fixed outcomes. On Robinhood Chain, 5 of 5,575 x402-enabled agents out of 20,046 used their agentWallet as payTo.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π§ AI- elvis (@omarsar0) on X
Thread by Elvis Saravia (omarsar0) summarising an Anthropic-led paper on pretraining data poisoning of CLI agents. Poisoning 0.1% of pretraining data planted a remote code execution backdoor in Qwen3 models (0.6B, 1.7B, 4B) trained from scratch. It survived SFT, DPO and RL, and fired on about 92% of triggered prompts at 4B. At a 0.0005% poison rate (about 2,500 documents) it still fired on 1.4% of prompts.
x.comthreadAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Lonnie VanZandt (@lonniev) on X
Tollbooth DPYC's "Secure Courier" is a consent scheme that lets an AI agent act for a Nostr npub at a paid MCP service without holding the user's nsec. The service sends a signed, sealed Nostr direct message, the user replies signed with their nsec and sets an expiry, and the service issues its own grant. The thread contrasts this with central identity providers and CIBA, arguing a breach reaches only grants that service issued.
x.comthreadAdded 1 Nov 2026, published 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Shubham Mishra π (@shubh6200) on XA post relaying Cursor's security advisory: a modified, malicious Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through the Cursor extension marketplace, affecting at most 5,000 users. Anthropic did not develop that version, and other extensions are not affected. Users of Claude Code in Cursor are told to update to version 2.1.314. The post adds that marketplaces need publisher verification and package integrity checks. It gives no technical detail on the payload.
x.comthreadAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- ESET Research (@ESETresearch) on X
ESET Research thread summarising its APT Activity Report for April to September 2026 on Russia-aligned groups targeting Ukrainian defense, government and infrastructure. Gamaredon deployed Turla's new VBScript recon tool Rezzuar, indicating FSB-linked collaboration, and updated its file stealer PteroBox while activity fell sharply from mid-May. A separate campaign hit MDaemon mail servers via CVE-2025-8088, delivering HELLAGE and HELLTAG backdoors with no user interaction.
x.comthreadAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - aiproduck (@aiproduck) on X
Ruflo is an MIT-licensed wrapper for Claude Code and Codex that adds agent swarms, vector memory and an MCP server. The plugin install writes no files to the workspace, while npx init adds a .claude/ directory, CLAUDE.md and hooks. The post warns that mods run with the account's permissions, so users should read them first. It gives no benchmarks or architecture detail.
x.comthreadPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π§ AI - Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on X
A thread on Cloudflare's agent-readiness scan and the AgentReady.org open spec for "Agent Experience", developed with Vercel, Stripe, Auth0, Mintlify, Google, Netlify and Elementor. The scan grades whether agents can find a site (robots.txt, DNS), read clean Markdown, pass bot rules, and discover an MCP server or API catalog. One quoted example raised a score from 20 to 67 by shipping an API catalog with Link headers, an MCP server card, a skills index and an AI catalog file.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on XRohan Paul's X post summarizes a TikTok paper on MCP attacks. LLM agents often finish the requested task, then quietly call an attacker-controlled logging tool that records the user query, the server reply and the final answer. The attack works because agents read natural-language tool descriptions when choosing and ordering tool calls. The visible text is truncated and gives no success rates or defenses.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- π¨ AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) on X
Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk") is an open-weights model from Mistral, now on Hugging Face. Per Mistral's announcement quoted in the post, it ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark, is aimed at agentic coding and cybersecurity, and claims better reasoning efficiency and lower inference costs. The post does not give parameter counts, license or benchmark scores.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI
SGLang (@sgl_project) on XSGLang announces Day-0 support for Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk"), saying it is the first engine to serve the model on NVIDIA Vera Rubin. The post describes the model as Mistral's largest to date: a natively multimodal 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts model covering instruct, reasoning, coding and agentic workflows. The fetched text is truncated, so benchmark claims and launch commands are not visible.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI
Muhammad Waris (@WarisCodes) on XNemotron 3.5 Transcribe is a free open-weight speech-to-text model from NVIDIA covering 40 languages, including mixed-language speech. The post says it ties for first among open models with a 2.8% error rate. It says the model needs a large GPU such as an H100 or RTX 5090, so it will not run on a laptop. The post gives no benchmark name or model card link.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI- π¨ AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) on X
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, promptable NVIDIA mixture-of-experts model with 30B total and about 4B active parameters. One checkpoint does transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting and audio understanding. The post says it ranked first in VoiceArena's comparison of 14 diarization plus ASR systems. The fetched text is cut off and gives no license or download details.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI - Dark Web Intelligence (@DailyDarkWeb) on X
DailyDarkWeb post summarising Anthropic Frontier Red Team research published 27 October 2026. An unreleased internal Claude research model built five attack chains: Chrome sandbox escape (V8 heap bug, CacheStorage race, FedCM use-after-free), a Safari same-origin policy bypass, data extraction from a locked Pixel 9 over USB, a Windows QUIC kernel crash (CVE-2026-33096) and zero-click Linux root via multipath TCP (CVE-2026-98432). Anthropic says all flaws are fixed, including 62 Chrome CVEs as of Chrome 156. The post notes the chains are not independently reproduced.
x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on X
Rohan Paul's X post summarizes the paper "Log-To-Leak: Prompt Injection Attacks on Tool-Using LLM Agents via the Model Context Protocol", from TikTok researchers. It reports that MCP-using agents often finish the requested task, then quietly call an attacker-controlled logging tool that records the query, server reply and final answer. The attack works through natural-language tool descriptions that agents read when choosing and ordering tools. The visible text is truncated.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Eddy (@ieddysun) on XExpo's official skills package gives AI coding agents scoped instructions for building Expo apps. One command, npx skills@latest add expo/skills --skill '*', installs it for Cursor, Copilot and Windsurf, while Claude Code and Codex use their plugin marketplaces. Skills include expo-router, expo-animation, expo-upgrade and eas-update. The Expo MCP server adds live docs lookup, compatible dependency installs, EAS build monitoring and simulator screenshots.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π§ AI
TENSA Engineering (@TENSAEng) on XA post by TENSAEng describing a workflow for staying within coding-tool usage limits. ChatGPT chat sits outside those limits, while Claude and Grok chats share a pool with Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build. Architecture, file layout, step order and acceptance checks are planned in ChatGPT and saved as repo docs. Claude Code or Codex then implements one small chunk per fresh session.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π§ AI- Laban (@lunkertw) on X
An X post summarising five AI items: Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon (88.2% SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% ExploitGym, 71.0% CWE-bench, 59 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0), Ed Zitron's critique of Anthropic's S-1, a Utah Claude Code pilot, and the repos beenuar/AiSOC and expo/skills. In the Utah pilot, 34 developers in 10 agencies took part over four weeks, 80% had a working setup within 30 minutes, and 71% saved over 20 hours. It gives short summaries and links, not primary analysis.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π§ AI
John Rood (@johnroodepic) on XNemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, promptable 30B mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA with about 4B active parameters, built for recorded audio. One checkpoint transcribes 40 languages, handles recordings up to an hour, labels up to eight speakers, translates, and answers questions about English audio. Weights and a demo are on Hugging Face. The post gives no benchmarks.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π§ AI- Hakimi Eiqbal (@hakimieiqbal) on X
A practical reverse-engineering map by hakimieiqbal on X that picks tools by target: native binaries, .NET, Electron, iOS, firmware, WebAssembly and network protocols. It introduces REA (morluto/rea), which connects coding agents to RE tools, and lists MCP bridges for IDA Pro, Ghidra and radare2. It adds an evidence-first workflow and free courses such as pwn.college and OpenSecurityTraining2.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Hakimi Eiqbal (@hakimieiqbal) on X
A thread by Hakimi Eiqbal that maps reverse-engineering tools by target type: native binaries, Electron, .NET, iOS, firmware, WebAssembly and network protocols. Its AI sections cover REA (an open-source layer connecting coding agents to analysis tools) and MCP bridges for IDA Pro, Ghidra and radare2. It argues for an evidence-first workflow and gives a prompt that separates verified facts from hypotheses.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026π§ AI
Kizuno18 (@Kizuno18) on XKizuno18's X post argues that the move from local stdio and Docker MCP servers to remote HTTP/SSE endpoints matures the Model Context Protocol in enterprise infrastructure. It lists three trade-offs: short-lived OAuth/JWT bearer tokens replace mounted admin credentials, deferred tool discovery avoids roughly 20k tokens of eager schema loading, and HCP Terraform enforces Sentinel/OPA policy, audit trails and approvals server-side. Opinion post with no benchmarks or code.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π§ AI
Buchi Reddy B (@buchireddy) on XBuchi Reddy B's X thread comments on Forever Security's research (Gal Weizman, Omer Samet) on coding agents. A web page silently writes a fake AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md into a Downloads folder, and Codex and Claude Code follow it as project rules. Codex then wrote an attacker's MCP server into the machine-wide config, so one injection becomes a standing connection for every session. It asks whether teams inventory runtime MCP connections against approved lists.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Photon Capital (@PhotonCap) on XPhoton Capital's thread covers the 27 October 2026 NVIDIA and Oracle announcement of general availability of Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs on OCI. It lists specs (Spectrum-6 at 102.4Tbps, HGX Rubin NVL8 with Xeon 6, 150,000 initial Vera CPUs) and OpenAI's use of Vera CPUs for agentic sandboxes. The commentary argues CPU capacity can cut cost per task and shorten KV cache residency in GPU memory.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π§ AI- Manoj | The AI Dude (@Manojkumar2257) on X
heditor is an open-source (MIT) agent skill from pycodebr that has Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode edit talking-head videos. It transcribes with faster-whisper, picks a 30-70s segment, cuts frame-accurately, builds HTML + GSAP motion graphics, mixes audio at -14 LUFS, and runs QA with vision-reviewed previews. It offers 42 named styles and a long-form mode with chapters, SRT/VTT and lower thirds. Install: npx skills add pycodebr/heditor -g.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π§ AI - Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on X
Hi3D v1.0 (formerly Sparc3D) is an open-sourced image-to-3D model from Hi3D, which runs a closed v3.0 refining at 2048 cubes per side. In a test with 13 professionals in 3D algorithms, 562 judgments against eight other image-to-3D models favoured it 83.5% of the time. The thread also covers the Hi3D Agent and an MCP server for other agents. Back and bottom views were checked, where TRELLIS.2 collapsed a winged figure.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π§ AI - Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on X
Campfire is a self-hosted workspace by Prasenjit Sarkar that runs Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Aider and OpenHands side by side in one tab. Risky actions go through permission voting: a majority approves, any single deny blocks, and a 30 second timer ends the wait. Session replay shows which file or tool call triggered an action. The post cites Forever Security's report of a planted AGENTS.md. Codex followed it first time over 90% of the time and Claude Code about half the time. Try it with "bunx the-campfire".
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π§ AI - Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on X
Campfire is a self-hosted tool that runs Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Aider and OpenHands in one tab. Risky actions need permission voting (majority approves, any single deny blocks, 30 second timeout), and session replay traces which file or tool call triggered an action. The post cites Forever Security's finding that Codex followed a planted AGENTS.md instruction over 90% of the time and Claude Code about half the time. It also cites the February Cline release compromise via a poisoned GitHub Actions cache.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Nicholas Martin (@ndgmlondon) on XX thread started by Nicholas Martin (#IAM) advising that MCP tool permissions be verified and scoped session tokens used to enforce least privilege against indirect prompt injection. Replies argue that token scoping does not solve the confused deputy problem, because an injection borrows the agent's legitimate authority. They recommend per-task tokens with short expiry, with the grant logged beside the call, and raise MCP server dependency supply-chain risk.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Proof of One: one-person-one-identity polling with encrypted ballots β design and reference code, requesting critical reviewProof of One is an open-source design for polls with one verified human per identity and unlinkable ballots. Enrolment proves in zero knowledge that an ICAO 9303 passport chip was signed by a trusted signer, plus an enclave face match. Voting uses threshold exponential ElGamal on Baby Jubjub with Groth16 proofs, and tally uses a GJKR DKG with a 7-day challenge window. The author, who is pseudonymous, discloses that AI agents drafted most of it and asks for critique of unlinkability, circuit completeness and certificate trust.
ethresear.chthreadPublished and added 27 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Abdullah (@abdullah0094) on XAn X thread by Abdullah on GPT-6.1 Terra versus Sol in Codex. Abdullah says Terra gives twice the Codex usage of Sol and asks whether the quality drop is obvious. A reply says it is too early for a verdict, cites OpenAI's claim that Terra matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam, and suggests defaulting to Terra and switching to Sol with /model when it stalls.
x.comthreadPublished and added 27 Oct 2026π§ AI- The SI Maximalist (@thesimaximalist) on X
The SI Maximalist posts on X that OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Terra matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam, OpenAI's test of workplace software tasks, at one tenth of the token price. The model is available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. The post only relays OpenAI's claim and gives no benchmark scores, exact prices or method.
x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026π§ AI
Masoud (@dev3mike) on XTweet from dev3mike warning Node.js users to update for CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli bug rated CVSS 9.2. Crafted compressed data can corrupt memory and possibly run code. The post says OpenAI's agents found it, and that the fix sat unreleased in Brotli's source since February. Patched versions are Node 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1.
x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Benjaminπ¨βπ» (@Hislordship_9) on XThread on Forever Security's finding that a planted Markdown "Engineering Work Guidelines" file in ~/Downloads made Codex add a "project-tools" MCP server to ~/.codex/config.toml. The server ran npm install function-color, a known malicious package, and started a child session with --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox. Codex complied in over 90% of the firm's tests; Claude Code, via a CLAUDE.md setting ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, about half. Advice: don't start agents in Downloads, review instruction files, and diff agent config.
x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- lee1981 (@lee1981b) on X
Reply on X explaining a Bytecode Alliance advisory for Wasmtime's Cranelift compiler backend. A large or crafted Wasm function that generates enough SSA values overflows Cranelift's value-index representation, which packed indices into 24-bit fields. The fix widens them to 32 bits. The issue is not AArch64-specific, and the advisory names no required optimisation level. Guard pages do not reliably stop the resulting miscompilation and type confusion, so a sandbox escape can arise at compile time.
x.comthreadAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
David Gutierrez | Eng (@david_x_ai) on XThread on a critical opencode bug disclosed by Pillar Security on Oct 19. On Windows and WSL, a remote MCP server could run code during OAuth sign-in, because the server-chosen authorization URL was put unescaped into a PowerShell command, so a PowerShell subexpression executed. opencode fixed it in 1.18.33 on Sep 28 as a browser-launch refactor with no advisory or CVE. MCP Inspector published an advisory for the same bug class, and its fix needs a major bump of the open package.
x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Vlad Tchouchkov (@tchouchkov) on X
This X thread summarises OpenRouter usage charts. Weekly volume nears 200 trillion tokens, and open-weight models take 72.6% of tokens (136 trillion) against 27.4% for closed-weight models. Anthropic's daily average rose from about 0.6 to 2.25 trillion tokens alongside the Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 releases. DeepSeek leads text requests at 26.5%, and agents plus coding account for 57.7% of spending. The author notes the data describes OpenRouter only.
x.comthreadAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π§ AI - alex lee (@alexlee20122022) on X
Gheist is a GitHub campaign disclosed by Wiz in October 2026. Stolen tokens push ci-sync-XXXXXX branches with a sync-check workflow that dumps repo secrets base32-encoded to evade log masking, fetches the logs via API, then deletes the run. 13,500+ branches and 850+ accounts were hit since 15 September. Public repos are protected by the approval hold; private and Enterprise repos are not. The thread lists IOCs (.gdmp_pat files, "gheist" user agent, "ci: sync config" commits) and rotation steps.
x.comthreadAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) β attributable adoption of versioned safety specificationsDraft ERC "Agent Safety Framework (ASF)" on Ethereum Magicians (ethereum/ERCs PR #2113). It defines versioned, content-addressed Safety Specifications and on-chain Safety Bindings. A binding records which adopter accepted which pinned spec version for a subject and scope, with named interveners who can suspend, resume or terminate. A pure-registry check() returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown, and Unknown never counts as satisfied. Reference consumers ASFGuardedAccount and ASFTaskTenderAdapter come with 73 tests, 47 of them negative.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) β a registry of versioned safety specifications and of the scoped, attributable adoption relations that bind agents to themAgent Safety Framework (ASF) is a draft ERC on Ethereum Magicians that defines two on-chain objects: a versioned, content-addressed Safety Specification and a Safety Binding, in which an adopter pins one spec version for a subject and scope. A registry check() returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown. Bindings support derived delegation, and suspensions come in five graded restrictions. Reference consumers are ASFGuardedAccount and ASFTaskTenderAdapter, with 73 tests, 47 of them negative.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 25 Oct 2026π§ AI
Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) β a registry of versioned safety specifications and of the scoped, attributable adoption relations that bind agents to themAgent Safety Framework (ASF) is a draft ERC on Ethereum Magicians for an on-chain registry of versioned, content-addressed safety specifications and of Safety Bindings. A binding records that an adopter accepted one pinned spec version for a subject and scope, with declared enforcement locations, named interveners and a lifecycle (Active, five Suspended restrictions, Terminated). A check(requirement, bindingIds) call returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown, and Unknown never counts as satisfied. Reference consumers ASFGuardedAccount and ASFTaskTenderAdapter come with 73 tests, 47 of them negative.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
ERC-8468: Agent Safety Framework (ASF)ERC-8468, the Agent Safety Framework (ASF), is a draft Ethereum standard with two on-chain objects: a versioned Safety Specification and a Safety Binding with suspend, resume and terminate rights. A check() call returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown at the moment of effect. Revision 6 has reference contracts, 90 tests and a Sepolia run of 36 transactions in October 2026, and the thread asks reviewers five design questions.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π§ AI
ERC-8468: Agent Safety Framework (ASF)ERC-8468 (Agent Safety Framework, ASF) is a draft Ethereum standard, now at revision 6, for recording which participants accepted which safety requirements for an AI agent, in which version, enforced where, and whether that acceptance is in force now. It defines a versioned Safety Specification, an on-chain Safety Binding with interveners holding suspend, resume and terminate rights, and a check() that returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown. The reference guarded account and task-tender adapter passed 90 tests (64 negative) and a Sepolia run of 36 transactions.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) β attributable adoption of versioned safety specificationsAgent Safety Framework (ASF) is a draft ERC (ethereum/ERCs pull request #2113) for an on-chain registry that records which participants adopted which versioned safety specification, for what subject and scope, and where it is enforced. It defines two objects (Safety Specification, Safety Binding) and a registry check returning Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown. Two reference consumers and 73 tests (47 negative) are reported, and the post asks the community four design questions.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 25 Oct 2026π§ AI
su (@sutdmhy) on XKimi K3.1 Pro is a Moonshot AI model, with a high-speed variant, described in a tweet as a mixture-of-experts system of about 2.8 trillion parameters with a 1-million-token context window and multimodal support. The post claims gains in coding, long-horizon agents, 3D modeling (Blender/CAD) and financial research, and says benchmarks come close to Claude Opus 5.5. Full open weights are planned by November 4. The post gives no benchmark figures.
x.comthreadAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π§ AI- The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) on X
The Hacker News post relays LiteLLM's root-cause disclosure for its supply chain attack. A master key leaked on GitHub in May was never revoked. Attackers used it to reach the Agent Platform, steal a GitHub owner token, and publish a malicious PyPI release in October. A reply says the agent tool held the org owner's personal CLI login, which skips GitHub's 2FA re-check.
x.comthreadAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - AI Quanting (@AIQuanting) on X
AI Quanting's X thread covers Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro release (1M-token context, open weights promised by November 4). Moonshot removed cyber data from mid-training and RL stages; on its in-house xdev-bench-hard exploit benchmark (Linux kernel, Node.js, JavaScriptCore, Exim, VirGL bugs) pass@3 fell from 90.5% to 81.0%. The author argues this is only about a tenth of the capability, so four in five expert exploit tasks remain solvable.
x.comthreadAdded 25 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) on XToolUniverse, from ScientistTools, is an open-source (Apache-2.0) toolkit that gives any LLM one interface to more than 1,000 scientific tools, models and databases such as PubMed, UniProt and ChEMBL. It ships a native MCP server, a Python SDK and a tu CLI, plus 68 pre-built agent skills. The post says it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Windsurf.
x.comthreadPublished and added 24 Oct 2026π§ AI- Big Bull (@BIGBULLapp) on X
A post by BIGBULLapp on X about a TensorBlock GitHub index of Model Context Protocol servers, described as a TypeScript list so agents call tools someone has already wired up. It cites 1470 forks, 943 stars and 15 open issues. The author notes that curated lists go stale when a server changes its schema. The repository name is truncated in the post.
x.comthreadAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026π§ AI - Yash Patil (@yvshpvtil) on X
leanrea is an 8 KB skill file that tells a coding agent which plain CLI tools to use for reverse engineering, replacing REA, a 207-tool MCP server. In the author's test it ran 38% faster and 35% cheaper, scoring 74/75 against 75/75. The author lists caveats: 3 runs per task, one model, one machine, and Claude with no skill was already decent.
x.comthreadAdded 25 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026π§ AI - Yash Patil (@yvshpvtil) on X
leanrea is an 8 KB skill file that tells a coding agent which plain CLI tools to use for reverse engineering, replacing the 207-tool REA MCP server. The author's test reports 38% faster, 35% cheaper, and a score of 74/75 against REA's 75/75. Caveats listed: 3 runs per task, one model, one machine, and Claude with no skill already performed decently. Replies question whether the lost point was a task where structured tool output beat parsing CLI text.
x.comthreadAdded 25 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog) on X
MalwareTech thread arguing that many public "php2shell" exploits for CVE-2026-109618/CVE-2026-109619 are LLM hallucinations. The code shown is PHP session poisoning used to exploit local file inclusion in PHP apps, not a PHP vulnerability. It shares only the PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS feature with the CVEs. Honeypot traffic shows non-working attempts, and AI-assisted triage wrongly confirmed mass exploitation. The real bug works only on a few PHP versions with specific configurations. Mitigation is setting session.upload_progress.enabled to Off.
x.comthreadAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Daily Vibe Casting (@vibecastingapp) on XDaily Vibe Casting thread of 24-hour tech news, with item 5/10 on Cloudflare's agent security audit skill. The skill works across models and agent harnesses, including free models, and outputs machine-readable reports. It calls for sandboxing, proof of real impact and independent checks. The thread also covers GitLab CVE-2026-110264 (CVSS 10.0, unauthenticated RCE), two AI-found PHP RCE flaws, and a Railway secret-theft warning.
x.comthreadAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Daily Vibe Casting (@vibecastingapp) on XDaily Vibe Casting is an X thread dated 24 October 2026 that summarises ten tech news items from the previous 24 hours. The AI items are Cloudflare's model-independent agent security audit skill, Recursive SI's Apache 2.0 Flint local coding model (125+ tokens/s on an M4 Pro), Anthropic's Claude Duet preview and Claude API version 2026-10-21, which drops temperature, top_p and top_k. It also covers HeyGen Voice Turbo and Gemini in Google Maps on CarPlay.
x.comthreadAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π§ AI
ERC-TBA: Agent Income StatementsERC-TBA: Agent Income Statements is a draft Ethereum standard, a profile of the ERC-8004 Reputation Registry. A writer posts chained statements of what an agent's agentWallet received in one asset, with each incoming transfer a Merkle leaf, so lenders and buyers can verify earnings from x402 payments. Windows are cut at owner or wallet changes, and the post asks about statement grain, the MetadataSet requirement and who may write. The reference implementation is unaudited.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 22 Oct 2026π§ AI- Nagli (@galnagli) on X
Tweet by Gal Nagli (galnagli) saying a Gemini model turned the GitLab advisory for CVE-2026-110264 into a working heap exploit in 17 minutes, with the full chain done in about another hour. The flaw is a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE on self-managed GitLab servers, affecting 12 years of releases, found by joaxcar. The post links a The Hacker News article and gives no technical details of the exploit.
x.comthreadAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
SecureChap (@SecureChap) on XPost describing a LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI compromise in which attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens from three engineers to trigger and approve the project-releaser workflow, producing eight malicious wheels and a tampered tarball. The wheels drop cook.pth, which runs at Python startup, and privcollect steals cloud tokens, keys, browser data, AI configs and LiteLLM proxy credentials, exfiltrating to litellm[.]dev/healthcheck. A second daemon polls a GitHub domain.txt hourly for new domains to fetch and execute. PyPI yanked the package the same day. The post is a single unsourced tweet.
x.comthreadPublished and added 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- elvis (@omarsar0) on X
FrontierMemory is a benchmark that evaluates agent memory through downstream task performance, measuring how agents learn from experience rather than recall, which the post says is saturated via agentic search. In elvis's summary, Claude Opus 5.5 ranks first and open-weight GLM-5.3 does well on memory generation. The authors reply that "memory" here means any adaptation from experience, so harness-level changes can also be scored. The post gives no scores or links.
x.comthreadAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026π§ AI
VibecodersHQ (@VibeCodrHQ) on XPost summarising Pillar Security's finding of a remote code execution flaw in OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent. Versions 1.0.137 through 1.18.32 could run code from a remote MCP server during OAuth sign-in on Windows and WSL, with no prompt injection needed. The fix is in 1.18.33 (released 28 September). No advisory or CVE was issued, so scanners will not flag old installs. Interim advice is to remove unvetted remote MCP servers.
x.comthreadAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
SemiAnalysis (@SemiAnalysis_) on XSemiAnalysis thread arguing that vLLM with Wide-EP and EPLB can reproduce DeepSeek's serving performance. It reports decode throughput within 6% of DeepSeek's DeepInfer release and about $39 per GPU-hour revenue at DeepSeek's off-peak pricing, at 200 P90 TPS on the AgentX workload. It explains why DeepInfer is not on InferenceX: the release supports only offline, single-turn inference. It also estimates GB300 profit at OpenRouter prices.
x.comthreadAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026π§ AI
Billy Lee (@billyozno) on XLiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI shipped malware in all 7 wheels, the package's second supply-chain attack this year. It steals SSH keys, cloud credentials, browser passwords, AI tool configs and API keys, and installs a backdoor that polls for commands hourly. The GitHub source is clean, so a hijacked build or publish step is suspected. PyPI quarantined the release, but Aikido says the Docker image litellm/litellm:1.107.0 was still live. Indicators are cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py in site-packages. The advice is to rotate reachable keys and pin 1.106.2.
x.comthreadAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Manish Kumar (@Manixh02) on X
Anatomy is an open-source agent skill that turns technical concepts into interactive visuals. Asked to explain a rate limiter or CDN cache, it builds a working model the user can explore. A tweet by Manixh02 says it works with Claude Code, Codex and other agents, and links to a GitHub repo under wheresryan22. The tweet gives no install steps or implementation details.
x.comthreadAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026π§ AI - 0xMarioNawfal - The Roundtable Show (@RoundtableSpace) on X
TorchTPU is Google's open-source project for running PyTorch apps on its TPUs, announced the day after Amazon released TorchNeuron for its Trainium chips. Google says migration needs "a simple configuration change" with no rewrite. It worked with Meta, Hugging Face, and the vLLM and SGLang teams on compatibility, and added an agent suite that helps migrate apps and fix errors. The post is brief and gives no benchmarks.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026π§ AI - 0xMarioNawfal - The Roundtable Show (@RoundtableSpace) on X
Headroom is an open-source GitHub project that compresses logs, files and tool outputs before they reach an AI coding agent. The tweet by RoundtableSpace claims up to 95% fewer tokens for JSON and about 20% fewer overall, with the same answers and lower API bills. The tweet gives no method or benchmarks, and the repo link is truncated.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026π§ AI
brenz. (@brenzhills) on XKrea 3 is an image generation and editing model from Krea. A post on X says its "Fast" variant scores 1125 Elo on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, against 1124 for Google's Nano Banana 2, while producing 10 images in the time Google produces 2. It also says the "Ultra" variant ranks in the top 4, behind only OpenAI models. The post gives no methodology or model details.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026π§ AI
Parul Gautam (@Parul_Gautam7) on XBeacon is an open-source memory layer for coding agents. It saves sessions across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more than 20 other tools, so developers can move work between agents without losing context. The team says it raised a $5.5M seed round and is building a self-improving feedback loop that learns from how users debug. The post gives no technical detail or repo link.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026π§ AI
Paulo Pierrondi | AI agents (@paulopierrondi) on XPaulo Pierrondi's X post, part 9 of a series on installing MCP servers, lists a monthly review of installed servers. The checks are which tools the agent used, servers not called in weeks, overlapping tools that confuse the model, and whether each server still has an owner. A reply adds a decommissioning check: after removal, confirm the server's old credentials can no longer call the backend.
x.comthreadPublished and added 20 Oct 2026π§ AI- DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) on X
DFIR_Radar weekly detection engineering digest covering 23 new and 19 updated rules across 6 GitHub repositories. It lists KQL rules for Azure Key Vault secret retrieval, MCP client User-Agent bulk operations and local Azure token theft, AWS CloudTrail analytics, Sigma rules for firewall and ETW tampering (decimal 17 vs hex 0x11), updated LOLDrivers hashes, and Sublime email rules for OAuth consent phishing and fake IRS W-9 PDFs.
x.comthreadAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Angel (@ziran_pu) on XAshAi, the AI package for the Elixir Ash Framework, is getting MCP client tools. Creating an MCP server with AshAi was already simple, but connecting your own LLM tool loop to an external MCP server had to be built by hand. The planned release includes OAuth client management resources. The post gives no release date, API details or code.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026π§ AI
Santhosh Patel (@santhosh_patell) on XSummary of Pillar Security research on opencode, in which a malicious remote MCP server runs code on a Windows or WSL machine during the OAuth login step. The login URL goes unsanitised into PowerShell through the npm "open" package, so an https:// link containing $(...) executes. Affected versions are 1.0.137 to 1.18.32, fixed in 1.18.33 (28 September) as a "refactor" with no advisory or CVE. The behaviour was first reported in 2020 as a WSL 2 broken-link bug.
x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
FastFix AI (@FastfixAI) on XFastFix AI thread giving six checks before installing a plugin, MCP server or skill for a coding agent. It starts from a 300K-star repo that an agent found writing to Claude Code, Codex and Copilot configs on install. Checks: read before running, inspect npm install scripts, verify the real repo against lookalike trojaned copies, pin versions, diff agent configs, and limit tokens and permissions.
x.comthreadAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Ethan Walkrman (@ethanwalkerman) on X
Harness2 is a framework from Google Cloud AI Research and Northwestern University in which an Editor model rewrites an agent's harness (system prompt, memory, skills, tool scripts, subagent routing, middleware) without changing model weights. It uses a Propose-Probe-Compose loop that compares execution trajectories instead of ground truth. On WorkBuddy-Bench, GLM-5 rose from 64.2 to 75.7 after one round, above Gemini 3.5 Flash at 72.4. The thread also lists risks: latency, experience poisoning, and a sandbox that is off by default.
x.comthreadAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026π§ AI
Bitcoin News (@BitcoinNewsCom) on XMark Karpelès, former Mt. Gox CEO, says he is building a low-cost device to detect hidden LTE antenna spy implants in hardware wallets such as Ledger without opening them. It emits weak radio waves and measures resonance frequencies. He plans to publish the PCB designs and specs; the project is at concept stage with a prototype expected within weeks. A linked YouTube video is not covered in the text.
x.comthreadAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Magai (@HeyMagai) on XPost from Magai (@HeyMagai) on Invariant Labs research showing that an approved MCP server can change its tool descriptions later without a new approval prompt, a "rug pull" like those in malicious code packages. It recommends pinning approval to tool definitions by hashing descriptions and re-prompting when the hash changes. For tools that move money, limits should stay server-side.
x.comthreadAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
ERC-8447: Swarm AI FrameworkERC-8447 (Swarm AI Framework) is a draft Ethereum standard proposing an on-chain registry and charter model for swarms: purpose-bound agent collectives with a membership boundary, an objective with attainment rules and a declared collaboration structure. Executed terms are hashed into a frozen spec, while the charter is kept off-chain. The reference implementation has 85 Foundry tests and tender and ERC-8436 decision adapters. The thread asks reviewers about vocabulary, amendment classes and the ERC-8004 dependency.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026π§ AI
[Draft ERC] Swarm AI Framework β registry and charter model for purpose-bound agent swarmsEthereum Magicians discussion of a draft ERC, the Swarm AI Framework. It proposes a registry and charter model in which accounts, including autonomous agents, form, bound, run and dissolve purpose-bound swarms. A hashed on-chain SwarmSpec (roles with eligibility modules, phases, decision authorities, fallback timers) is paired with an off-chain Swarm Pack charter. Two-sided signed admission (EIP-712 / ERC-1271), challenge and substitution, and minor versus material amendments are included. Phase posture is a coordinate: executed boundary and admission, plus declared payoff, topology and coordination terms from a write-once vocabulary. This lets cooperation, competition, tenders, debate, ensembles and pipelines be expressed. It integrates with ERC-8004 agent identity and ERC-8436 decision adapters. The reference implementation is a non-upgradeable registry with five eligibility modules and a task-tender adapter. The post asks reviewers specific design questions on vocabulary, amendment classes, roster snapshots and digest kinds.
ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 18 Oct 2026π§ AI- Steven Daugherty (@StevenDaugherty) on X
Post warning that FastMCP had a critical flaw where a malicious MCP server could execute code on the connecting client through a crafted tool schema. Fixed in FastMCP 3.4.8 and 4.0.11, and there is no patch for the 2.x line. It matters to anyone whose agents connect to MCP servers they don't control. The post gives no CVE ID or technical root cause.
x.comthreadAdded 18 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Mikko Laakkonen (@mikkolaakkonen) on XAn X thread by Mikko Laakkonen arguing that companies should encourage staff to vibe code, then provide approved hosting, identity, secrets, deployment and monitoring. It lists 200 application checks in 17 sections, from ownership and data flow through keys, authz, coding-agent isolation, appsec, SBOM and releases to recovery, runtime AI and handover. It adds 16 EU bonus checks on GDPR, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act (reporting from 11 Sept 2026, main duties 11 Dec 2027), the AI Act and the Data Act. It builds on Mark Ajzenstadt's production-readiness post and links a 300-check worksheet version.
x.comthreadAdded 18 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Bikash | Hermes Super-Intel (@BkashJosi) on X
Post by Bikash (@BkashJosi) ranking open GitHub issues labelled type/feature for the Hermes agent framework by thumbs-up reactions. The query returned 5,349 issues and only one has more than 50 votes. The top three are Claude Agent SDK with subscription OAuth (57), remote Hermes with local tool execution (41) and Mistral provider support (32), followed by backups, configuration sync and context reduction. The full top 10 is only in the video.
x.comthreadAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026π§ AI
π¨ AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) on XA TestingCatalog X post with two Daily AI Briefs (Oct 17 and the start of Oct 16), grouped by vendor. Oct 17 items include GPT-6 Astra Pro upgrades in ChatGPT, Codex context reuse and caching, Gemini 4 Argon in AI Studio Build, the open-weight MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, Claude Code Review going GA, Perplexity's open Decider v1.2 models (27B and 4B), NVIDIA's 4B looped Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0, Reflection's Apache-2.0 Beam, Cursor cloud-agent canvases and Tencent's Hy Memory 2.0. Oct 16 begins with Meta's open-weight Muse Spark Open, an 816B-total, 42B-active MoE with a 1M-token context. It gives a quick snapshot of the week's open-weight and coding-agent releases.
x.comthreadAdded 18 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026π§ AI
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